Lindsay ran a bustling medical practice in Calgary, and, after growing his fortune locally, then striking it rich in the north, the doctor’s preferred investment for his money was real estate. During the Klondike gold rush, he hears the call of the gold rush, and evidently he becomes one of the few who actually came back with money.” He’s an early physician I think he’s one of the first people who organized a Masonic Lodge in Calgary. “He arrived on the first passenger train Aug. “Neville Lindsay, even without Lindsay’s Folly, is an important figure,” says Harry Sanders, a well-known and respected Calgary historian. To understand why the ruins are significant, you need to first understand a bit about the man who ordered the home’s construction: Dr. Now, all that’s left of Lindsay’s Folly, or Lindsay’s Castle, as it’s sometimes known, is one sad brick foundation wall and some shredded and bubbled concrete. What led to the home being abandoned on a beautiful riverside lot has become the stuff of Calgary legend.
Tradesmen and labourers finished the foundations, assembled the main portico and erected soaring archways of sandstone salvaged from the city’s first Knox Presbyterian Church, before construction suddenly ceased, never to resume again. So it might be apt that the nearest thing we have to a historic ruin stands sentinel to one of Calgary’s first prominent residents, who had everything, then lost it all. This city’s history has been written in chapters of resource-driven booms and busts.
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At its short-lived best, it was a full storey of arched sandstone, supported by chiselled columns and wide steps, curling toward a sweeping panorama of Calgary overlooking the Elbow. Lindsay’s Folly is what’s left of a massive 1913 sandstone dream home partially built near the Elbow River, close to 34th Avenue and 4th Street S.W.
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